Wide angle imaging of the far Southern Sky (2)

North of the Eta Carinae Emission Nebula - wide angle shot

The Gem Cluster - NGC 3293 is a very young cluster with an estimated
age of 10 million years and was one of Abbe Lacaille's discoveries.
Most of the stars are hot, blue bright stars although the brightest is
a magnitude 6.5 red giant.
NGC 3199 is the wind-blown partial "ring" around a Wolf-Rayet star.

NGC 3324 is also called the Gabriela Mistral nebula because of the
striking resemblance to the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet.
Gum 32 is a ring nebula ionised by the O8V star LSS 1887.
This image was created by median combining 5 x 120 second Hydrogen
Alpha images, binned 2 by 2, taken using a remotely controlled
telescope in Australia - while sitting in my study in Daventry,
England.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/southernsky6/widesouth2.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm

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"ukastronomy"  wrote in message 
news:42fcf91e-21a3-429c-b0e7-baefccf2880b@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> NGC 3324 is also called the Gabriela Mistral nebula because of the
> striking resemblance to the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet.
>
> http://www.martin-nicholson.info/southernsky6/widesouth2.htm
>


For anyone, like me, who didn't believe it looking at the wideangle picture, 
here is another image which more clearly demonstrates the likeness.

http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/NGC%203324.htm

Spooky.